Mt. Pleasant News

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsIt was a good night to be an Iowa Wesleyan Tiger on Thursday night. The IWU volleyball team snapped a seven-game losing streak to grab a conference victory during homecoming week, defeating Blackburn College, 3-1 (26-28, 25-23, 25-21, 25-14).Game one was competitive throughout as the teams went back and forth and neither team could get any separation.Trailing 23-21 late, ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union cross-country team hosted their home meet on Thursday night and picked up three top-five finishes combined in the two races.The Wolves finished fifth in the boys? race, with 109 points and didn?t have enough runners to score during the girls? portion.Gavin Bencze was the fastest runner of the day, winning the boys? race in 17:07.22. Brock ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Iowa Wesleyan Men?s soccer team snapped a six-game losing streak on Thursday evening, defeating Grace University, 2-1.After going down, 1-0, in the first half, the Tigers tied the game before the break and scored the only goal of the second half to win their first home game of the season.Grace took the lead 24:09 on an unassisted goal by Jose Valadez, but IWU?s Ronaldo ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsIt was a day full of action at Iowa Wesleyan?s Ruble Arena on Thursday. The Tiger volleyball team took part in a daylong triangular, where they fell 3-0 to Mt. Mercy (25-20, 25-18, 25-9) and 3-1 to Hannibal-LaGrange University (25-21, 16-25, 25-21, 25-16).Cassandra Schwamborn had a big game in both losses. She finished the game against Mt. Mercy with a team-leading 11 kills ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsTaylor Murray is one of two junior runners on the Mt. Pleasant girls? cross-country team, which makes her one of just two upper-classmen.Murray is also a member of the MPCHS track and field team, where she runs distance and mid-distance races, and is on the Panther girls? basketball team.Murray met with The News on Wednesday evening after school. The questions will appear in ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsMEDIAPOLIS ? Two Henry County teams have advanced to the Southeastern Super Conference tournament final this weekend.Both New London and Winfield-Mt. Union moved on to the tournament finals, which will take place in Mediapolis on Saturday, Sept. 24.New London, who dropped out of the Class 1A top 15 rankings this week, swept all four of their matches at Notre Dame in Thursday ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? The New London football team took a giant step in their push for the playoffs on Friday night.Thanks to a last-minute touchdown catch by Dallas Bell, the Tigers upended Montezuma, 28-22, in a game that had major playoff implications.Bell caught the pass from Tiger quarterback Blake Nehring on fourth down with just 28 seconds left on the clock and the game tied ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? The 13th-ranked New London volleyball team is really starting to hit its stride.The Tigers made quick work of Cardinal on Thursday night, sweeping the Comets 25-15, 25-5 and 25-4 to pick up their fourth 3-0 win in a row.Cardinal was able to stick around in the first set, staying with the Tigers throughout the game, but New London dominated in the next two sets ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsFT. MADISON ? The Mt. Pleasant boys? cross-country team continued to roll over local competition at the Ft. Madison Invitational on Thursday night.The Panther boys won the meet, which included all five SEC teams plus Burlington, with 23 points. The MPCHS girls were fourth, with 72 points, which was just one point back of third-place Washington.On the small school side, ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Mt. Pleasant seventh-grade football team moved to 1-1 on Tuesday night with an 8-6 win against Keokuk.Josh Mueller caught the Panthers? first touchdown pass of the season. Sam Jerrell added the two-point conversion, which turned out to be the difference in the contest.Defensively the Panthers had three takeaways. Jerrel had two interceptions on the day, and Morgan ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsThe Mt. Pleasant Middle School volleyball teams hosted Ottumwa in non-conference games on Thursday night. The Panther eighth-graders were defeated in all but one set and the seventh-graders went 1-2-1.In the eighth-grade ?A? match, Mt. Pleasant fell, 21-8 and 21-2. Maddie Moore was 4-6 serving with four points and Emma Pieper was 3-3 serving with one point.In the ?B? game, ...

BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant volleyball made it two dominating SEC wins in a row on Thursday night with a 3-0 sweep of Keokuk.Two days after their sweep at Washington, the Panthers dominated the first two sets and hung on in a tight third to drop the Chiefs, 25-12, 25-13 and 26-14.After Keokuk scored the first two points of the night, the Panthers went on a 4-0 run early in the first set to ...